Celebs lament inflation, regard chili as ‘new status symbol’

With the inflation rate in August at its highest in nine years at 6.4 percent, even celebrities can feel its effects.

“Inflation. Ang dating ipapang-grocery na 2,000 pesos, pa-konti na nang pa-konti ang nabibili (The P2000 pesos you used to have to buy groceries can now only buy fewer and fewer goods as time passes by),” she wrote on Twitter on Sept. 6. “Sa mga economists dito sa (To the economists here on) Twitter, honest question.. will it get worse or is this the part that gets a bit better?”

(Many are asking: expensive makeup, no whining. Expensive cigarette, no whining. Expensive make up, no whining. Expensive night out, no whining. But when rice becomes expensive, there’s a lot of whining. You only spend on your vices occasionally; but food, whether rich or poor, need it every day.)

(How are we to say that the Duterte administration is very good? That it really is the best? In the midst of the 6.4 inflation rate, weevil-infested rice, stealing of Philippine island, 20,000 dead, six billion shabu, traffic that still has no solution, corruption, 800 per kilogram chili, you can’t criticize them? Despite all that?)

Musician Jim Paredes threw a jab at Diehard Duterte Supporters (DDS) through a post he retweeted. The said tweet contains a photo of a man eating cardboard cutouts of foods, and is captioned, “DDS pa more. Gutom na ba? (DDS still. Are you hungry yet?)”

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